~Chapter Twelve : The more you have the more you have to loose.

Hermione woke up in her room, she rubbed her eyes and started looking around for Blaise but no sign of him. She frowened lightly but then when she recalled the feeling of being in his arms she smiled.

She started walking down the stairs with a light pathetic smile on her pink lips. She got to the dining room where everyone was sitting around the table.

"Morning." She said and then she tensed up as she saw everyone's serious and worried exspressions. "What's wrong?"

Harry looked at her with a worried and sad face. "Hermione, I'm sorry.."

She looked at everyone in the room. "You are scaring me, what's going on?"

"Last night, Blaise went out to make sure we're safe, he was worried and.."

"And what?" She felt her face go pale.

"And they kidnapped him, Hermione, they have him." She looked at Lupin her heart stopping.

"Let's find him, do we know where he is, let's search!" Everyone looked at her as if they had something else to tell her.

"We aren't having a searching party for him." Hermione felt anger in every muscle in her body.

"WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE AREN'T LOOKING FOR HIM?"

"Hermione, I know you care for him, and we all do but it's too dangerous."

Hermione looked at them with a disgussed look. "I wouldn't be standing here, talking to you, breathing, if it wasn't for him, and Harry, Ron I love you all but I don't care weather you looking for him or not because I'm going and there isn't a thing in this world , not Voldemort himself, that will stop me." She grabbed her wand, checking she was still dressed from last night and she started walking towards the door.

"Hermione, you can't !"

"Get back in here!"

"Hermione Jean Granger don't you dare walk out !"

" No, 'Mione don't !"

Hermione turned out abrutly, her eyes full of tears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry it has to be that way but I'm not going to stay here and pretend Blaise isn't out there, fighting or even dying! I'm not gonna stand here and not do anything ! I might know him for only about two months but he isn't less worth to be saved than any of us! I'm going there, if you want you can come, if not you don't even dare and try to stop me." She shouted as she walked out the door shutting it behind her.

She started walking down the street, towards Malfoy Manor when she heard something.

"MIONE ! WAIT!" She turned around and saw Harry and Ron running to her.

"We aren't letting you alone, you've never let us and we're not gonna let you either. We are in this together." Hermione smiled as she gave them a tight hug.

"Where do we start?" Asked Ron and she grinned butthen turned serious.

"I was thinking Malfoy Manor."

"No, they kept you there, they won't keep him there as well, too easy, what about.."

"Goyle."

"What?"

"Goyle Manor, there DeathEaters as well, and from what I've heard close ones to Voldemort."

"Good call. Let's go."


Hermione looked down and sighted feeling tears in the back of her eyes.

"I don't get it, we searched everywhere.." Said Harry shaking his head.

"Where can we find Voldemort's 'home' !" Ron sighed and Hermione looked up quickly.

"That's it! Your a genius Ron!"

"Thanks!" He said with a pathetic smile. "What did I say?"

"HOME! Brilliant, we looked at all the places where it could be Voldemort's home.."

"But?"

"But, what about Blaise's home? Zabini Manor? What could be worse than being tortured in your own home?"

Both Harry and Ron raised their eyebrows in suprise and they all aparated the same moment to Zabini's Manor.


Hermione walked down the empty, dark hallway with her two best friends following in her foodsteps. She stopped everytime she would hear a sound. She just knew they were here, he was here. She could feel it in her guts.

Everything was dead silent until one loud scream pierced trough the silence. She knew it was Blaise. She started running towards it. knowing Harry and Ron were behind here.

And there, in the middle of one big, huge, black room, crawled up on the floor was Blaise's lifeless body.

One of the DeathEaters looked at her "Ohh, mudblood."

Hermione's jaw clenched and just as she was about to say something she heard Blaise's voice. "Don't call her that." His voice was steady and har but still obvious that he was in pain.

She looked at him, he was trying to get up, standing on his righ hand, but laying down, his face in wounds and his lip bleeding.

The DeathEaters took his mask off and he (Lucius Malfoy) looked at Blaise with a bitter grin.

Another DeathEater shot a curse that devised the room in two leaving Harry and Ron on the other side unable to brak in, Hermione could hear them screaming her name and how they would get her out soon.

A third DeathEater took Hermione's hands pushing them behind her back and throwing her wand on the floor and she screamned in pain because of her hurting hands that she felt like one more movement could brake, everything had happened so fast that she didn't have the time to react.

"Don't touch her !" Blaise screamed trying to get up but all the wounds stopping him.

"Fancy the mudblood, eh? Didn't think you would drop that low, Blaise? Hope your daddy though you more before he died." Blaise's jaw clenched and he looked at Hermione.

"Leave him alone!" Hermione screamed in desprate kicks and tried to brake free.

Just as the DeathEater was about to say something he fell on the ground to reveal Blaise standing with his wand up behind him and a smirk on his lips.

Hermione kicked the one holding her between the legs and ran to take her wand.

"Petrificus Totalus!" She screamed and the one holding her up until seconds ago fell on the floor like a marble statue. Blaise and Hermione looked at eachother and right after she nodded they started shooting curses at everyone in the room and just as she tought they were going to loose Harry and Ron broke free from the spell and started mimicking their actions.


Hermione sighted and looked at Blaise who was just taking the ice-pack away from his slightly-still-bleeding forehead. Hermione gave him a comforting look as Mad eye kept screaming at her.

"GRANGER I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU DO SOMETHING CLOSELY, AS IRRESPONSIBLE AND STUPID IN YEARS OR EVEN NEVER! WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOUR LITTLE MIND, GOING OFF AFTER A GROUP OF DEATEATERS THAT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GOT AN IDEA AS TO THERE WHEREABOUTS AND-" then he looked at Harry and Ron "DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON YOU BOYS! YOU SHOULD HAVE STOPPED HER, SHE WENT AFTER THEM BECAUSE OF HER FEELINGS FOR THE ZABINI BOY BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN RADICAL AND.." Hermione stopped listining about the time he mentione her 'feelings for the Zabini boy'.

She looked at Blaise seing he was probably thinking about the same thing.


At dinner the hole situation has cold off and everyone was just being happy that Blaise was back and everyone was alive and alright, even though wounded.

Miss Weasley surved dinner and everyone sat around the big table. Then suddenly Hermione remembered something, the date.

Miss Weasley got up for a tost. "Well, kids, I am so happy you are all alright and healthy, here with us eating this food but I must remind you that tomorrow you will be, going back to Hogwarts. Yes, I know, big summer, most of you (she looked at Harry and Ron at this art) didn't get to enjoy it the way they had planned and others (she gave a look to Hermione which of she looked down) spend it at unlikely places...with unlikely people. Anyways, please, eat some and than get ready for tomorrow, we are leaving early, driving to King Cross from where of course you will be taking the Hogwarts Express." She smiled sweatly and everyone dugged in their meal.

After Miss Weasley finished talking Hermione and Blaise looked at eachother from acros the table with worried looks.


Hermione knocked on the wooden door and only seconds after it was opened by a dark haired boy. "Hey." He said and Hermione smiled lightly.

"Um..Hey..can I come in?" Blaise nodded with a light smile and Hermione entered his room.

"I wanted to ask you something." She said and he nodded.

"Shoot."

"About tomorrow and well.. next year." Blaise looked at her.

"What about it?" Of course he knew exactly what she meant but at this point he prefered playing dumb.

"What are we doing, I mean, are we pretending we don't know eachother or just being nice and friendly or are we gonna keep being friends or more or I mean, i don't know!" She threw her hands in the air as she sat on his bed, almost falling on his bed actually.

Blaise smirked at her and went to sit next to her. "What do you wanna do?"

Hermione frowened. "That's not fair!"

"What?"

"No! No,no,no,no,no,no!"

Blaise laughed at her panic attack. "What's not fair?"

"Your not gonna make me decided!"

Blaise laughed a little more and Hermione enjoyed the sound of his laugh.. so pure and light.

He looked at her cupping her faci in his hands and making her look him straight in the yes. "I just wanna be Blaise and Hermione."

Hermione looked at him confused and he spoke again. "I don't wanna be the Slytherin prince and the Gryffindor princess, I don't wanna be the sex god and the smartest witch of her age, I don't wanna be the quidditch captain and the bookworm or Draco Malfoy's best friend and one of the Golden Trio."

Hermione looked down. "I just wanna be Blaise and Hermione." He said again and this time she smiled at him with dreamly.

"I wish we could." She whispered.

"Why can;t we?" Blaise looked at her confused this time.

Hermione looked away and got up walking around the room. "Because, do you realize how much damage it would cause, to you and to me both, if just sudenly a Slytherin and a Gryffindor became friends.."

Blaise looked at her eyes full of lust. "Hermione, I . don'.be friends."

He stepped closer brushing one of her lock behind her ear as he place one of his hands on her waist, the other behind her neck and leaned in comforting her and making her forget about all her eshues in one simple, perfect, flawless kiss.

Hermione felt his lips brushing her lightly then more passionatly and she just closed her eyes enjoying the moment for as long as they had it.